Jenny Erpenbeck

Jenny Erpenbeck was born in East Berlin in 1967. She is the author of several works of fiction, including The End of Days, which won the Hans Fallada Prize and the International Foreign Fiction Prize, and most recently, Go, Went, Gone. Erpenbeck lives in Berlin.

“Will I Come to a Miserable End?” Jenny Erpenbeck on Thomas Mann

"He succeeds in inverting the order of farce and tragedy."

September 3, 2020 By Jenny Erpenbeck

Can We Ever Escape History? On Walter Kempowski’s Life’s Work

An Antidote to the Traumatic Experiences of a Wartime Childhood

February 15, 2018 By Jenny Erpenbeck

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